Why this? Why now?

I have given a great deal of thought to whether or not a blog is right for me. I have been on an amazing journey - some of it very sad, some of it profoundly joyful. Transformation is possible - I know because it is happening with me.

I can't say for sure when it all started, other than it started happening with tremendous regularity upon my 40th birthday. This may be a rather normal occurence - you reach a certain age and start wondering if this is all there is in life. Am I doing what I'm meant to be doing? Are my beliefs real - what are my beliefs exactly?

Here's a smattering of the journey -

I got a divorce and began to discover and explore life from a much different perspective.

I began thinking about my health and researching and reaching out to learn things like: what I should be doing to avoid heart disease. The book, The China Study, changed my life. I am now a vegetarian. This also led me to quit smoking....and finally to stop drinking, too (I don't care what the studies say - just eat the grapes instead).

I have embarked upon an incredible spiritual journey - from a comparative religions class, to studying Ayurvedic living (of which I'm now studying to become an instructor), to learning more about Buddhism, and, as documented here in my blog, an active study of A Course In Miracles.

I am in a place in my life where I finally recognize very consciously that what I put in my mind and in my body is what comes out. As I am reminded most days when listening to Deepak Chopra's soul affirmations, "My body is the garden of my soul."

May I be of vessel of spirit, of loving-compassion.

Yes, I do think a blog is right for me. Thank you for joining me.
Namaste,

mac

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Day 212 - Lesson 211

I am not a body.  I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(191) I am the holy Son of God Himself.

In silence and true humility I seek God's glory, to behold it in the Son whom He created as my Self.

I am not a body.  I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

Today has been beautiful.  I sat in silence, I was surrounded by loved ones, I hiked in the pristine beauty of this rugged and historic place, and I studied.  I studied an ancient language and I reflected upon pure consciousness - the sweet, holy state of universal oneness.

I heard a song tonight called The Water is Wide.  I only heard the instrumental version of it and I kept hearing in my mind the classic hymn How Great Though Art.  They sound very similar - or at least they did tonight.  I pulled up the hymn and listened to a powerful version.  It's amazing how easy it is to feel completely connected to holiness, to spirit, to pure-potentiality....

It is as simple as listening to soul stirring music - a guitar, a voice praising all that is holy, as gazing upon a droplet of summer rain upon the leaves of clover, as sniffing the scent of sun-kissed wild flowers rooted within the spongy depths of a carpet of tundra, of raising your arms and face towards the sky and embracing the sun and clouds with your heart - of knowing I am connected to it all.  I am an active, alive, integral part of it all.

I am holy, I am spirit, I am free.
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